The Story of a Short Life / Juliana Horatia Ewing

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

The Story of a Short Life / Juliana Horatia Ewing

Entry/Object ID

2017.11.13

Description

201 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) Sepia flower and branch borders to each text page.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Children, Juvenile fiction, Conduct of life, 1890s

Dimensions

Height

7 in

Book Details

Author

Juliana Horatia Ewing

Edition

First

Publisher

Thomas Y. Crowell & Company

Place Published

City

New York

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1893

Printer

Norwood Press ; J.S. Cushing & Co. ; Berwick & Smith

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Japonisme

Binding Notes

Asian-inspired wraparound floral binding in cream colored cloth with a robins-egg blue stamped regular panel and darker blue flowers created by negative stamping. Decorated on all three sides. Titles in gilt to cover and spine. Plain endpapers.